Improvement in carving-forks



A. H. NORTH.

OARVING-FOR'K.

Patented May is, 187.6.

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UNITED STATES ALBERT H. NORTH, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGN OR TO LANDERS,

PATENT OFFICE.

FRARY & CLARK, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN CARVlNG-FORKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No, 177,545, dated May 16, 1876 application filed April 26, 1876. I

in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact descrip-- tion of the same, and which said-drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in-

Figure 1, a side View; Fig. 2, a top View;

and in Fig. 3, a longitudinal section.

This invention relates to an improvement in carving forks, especially to that class k which are provided with a guard and a rest to support the fork. p

In the usual construction of this class of forks the guard and resthave been made in one and the same piece, or so combined that one operates the other; hence, when the fork was at rest, the guard would necessarily be up-a serious objection on the'table.

The object of this invent on-is to provide a fork with both a guard and rest which shall be entirely independent of eachother; and the invention consists, principally, in a rest hung in the 'shank of a fork independent of the guard, as more fully hereinafter described.

A is the shank, B the tines, and C the handle, of a carving-fork, all of substantially the usual form; D, the guard, which isalso of the usual form, and hung in the shank on a pivot, to, so as to be closed upon the tines, or opened to the position of guard, and held in either position by a spring, as in the usual construction.

In the shank of the fork a rest, E, preferably divided into two prongs, is arranged, hung upon a pivot, d, and so as to be turned to the position of rest, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3, or turned up upon the handle, as shown in the drawings.

A spring is provided to hold this rest in its two positions. Preferably, a U shaped spring, f, is introduced into the shank between the ends of the guard and the rest, so that-the single spring serves for both parts.

1 claim- 1. The combination, in a carving-fork, of the swinging guard and the swinging rest, independent each of the other, substantially as described. Y I

'2. The combination, in a carving-fork, of the swinging guard and the swinging rest, independent each of the other, and a U-shaped spring between the two, substantially as set forth.

ALBERT H. NORTH.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON. 

